In Peru, 'forgotten' tribes discover Covid-19 as vaccines arrive
The remote community first learned of the pandemic when health workers arrived at the isolated village
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In Peru's Amazon, 'forgotten' tribes discover COVID-19 as vaccines arrive
Mariano Quisto, a remote community leader in Peru's dense Amazon rainforest, first learned of the global pandemic in October when health workers arrived by boat at his isolated village with vaccines.
Source: reuters.com
'Forgotten' Amazon tribes discover existence of Covid for the first time
'We didn't know about COVID-19. This is the first we are hearing about it,' said Mariano Quisto (pictured), the leader of Peru's indigenous Urarina community who live deep in the Amazon rainforest.
Source: dailymail.co.uk